Re: [PATCH] git-svn: trim leading and trailing whitespaces in author name

> On Thu, Sep 12, 2019 at 7:59 AM Tobias Klauser <tklauser@distanz.ch> wrote:
> > In some cases, the svn author names might contain leading or trailing
> > whitespaces, leading to messages such as:
> >
> >   Author: user1
> >    not defined in authors.txt
> >
> > (the trailing newline leads to the line break). The user "user1" is
> > defined in authors.txt though, e.g.
> >
> >   user1 = User <user1@example.com>
> >
> > Fix this by trimming the author name retreived from svn before using it
> > in check_author.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Tobias Klauser <tklauser@distanz.ch>
> > ---
> > diff --git a/perl/Git/SVN.pm b/perl/Git/SVN.pm
> > @@ -1491,6 +1491,7 @@ sub call_authors_prog {
> >  sub check_author {
> >         my ($author) = @_;
> > +       $author =~ s/^\s+|\s+$//g;
> >         if (!defined $author || length $author == 0) {
> >                 $author = '(no author)';
> >         }
> 
> This fix seems incomplete. What happens if $author is undefined?
> (There is a check for $author defined'ness just below the new code you
> add.)